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424 CÂU HỎI THƯỜNG GẶP TRONG PHỎNG VẤN I CÂU HỎI VỀ PERSONAL BACKGROUND Tell me about yourself What major challenges and problems did you face? How would someone who dislikes you describe you? What was your biggest failure? What is your definition of failure? What are your regrets? What is your greatest weakness? When was the last time you were angry? What happened? If you could relive the last 10 years of your life, what would you differently? 10 Tell me about a time when you helped resolve a dispute between others 11 What are your goals? 12 What is your dream job? 13 What are three things your former manager would like you to improve on? 14 Tell me about an accomplishment you are most proud of 15 Are you a leader or a follower? 16 What are some of your leadership experiences? 17 Why aren’t you earning more money at this stage of your career? 18 Who has inspired you in your life and why? 19 What techniques and tools you use to keep yourself organized? 20 What is your personal mission statement? Or give a one sentence statement of yourself 21 What is your greatest achievement outside of work? 22 Tell me one thing about yourself you wouldn’t want me to know 23 What is your favorite memory from childhood? 24 What two or three accomplishments have given you the most satisfaction? Why? 25 What are your hobbies? 26 What sports you play? 27 What kind of games you like to play? 28 What you in leisure/spare time? 29 What you to deal with stress? 30 What you to help balance life and work? 31 Would you rather be liked or feared? 32 How competitive are you? 33 Tell me about a time when you used your creativity to overcome a problem 34 Which of your skills, technical or otherwise, has most helped you on the job? 35 What new skills have you learned or developed recently? 36 What sort of things have you done to become better qualified for your career? 37 What were your responsibilities? (e.g in your last job) 38 What have you done to improve your knowledge in the last year? 39 Do you have a favorite quote? What is it? 40 Who is your role model and why? 41 Who you respect? Why 42 Tell me about someone you admire and why? 43 What unique experiences separate you from other candidates? 44 What kind of person would you refuse to work with? 45 What are your long-range and short-range goals and objectives, when and why did you establish these goals and how are you preparing yourself to achieve them? 46 Give me a example of an important goal that you set in the past and tell me about your success in reaching it 47 What you really want to in life? 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 What are the most important rewards you expect in your career? What are you best skills? What is the most difficult adjustment you have ever had to make? What two or three things are most important to you in a position? What are you interested in outside of your career? What is the last movie you watched? Did you like it? Give an example of a time you misjudged someone What have you learnt from your mistakes? Give an example of a time when you made a mistake because you did not listen well to what someone had to say Describe times when you were not satisfied or pleased with your performance What did you about it? Describe a time when you had to make a difficult choice between your personal and professional (or academic) life What you if you can’t solve a problem on your own? How has your job affected your lifestyle? What was the most useful criticism you received? Who was it from? Site and example from your personal life when you were dishonest to someone? What you have learned ever since you were born? Write to us about an incident in your life that shows how you faced a difficulty/challenge hand how you handled it Describe how you have persevered with a difficult problem in order to achieve a successful outcome What experience in your life has taught you the most? Who you contact and communicate with on a regular basis and for what purpose? What types of people you get along with and why What was the most traumatic experience to happen in your personal life? When you go on holiday, when you pack your case? What you consider yourself good at doing? On what you spend your disposable income? What’s the most important thing you’ve learnt in life? What is your greatest fear? Tell me about a problem you solved in a unique way What was the outcome? Tell me about a time when you made a decision without all the information you needed How frequent you add contacts to your address book? Do you think it is worth building network of contacts? Do you think it is worthwhile to establish new relationships? What are the consequences of building new relationships in your professional and personal life? How will you judge yourself successful? How will you achieve success? What have you learned from your experiences outside the workplace/classroom? II CÂU HỎI VỀ KINH NGHIỆM LÀM VIỆC 81 Why was there a gap in your employment between [insert dates] and [insert date]? 82 What applicable attributes/experience you have? 83 What did you like or dislike about your previous job? 84 Have you ever had difficulty working with a manager? 85 Who was your best boss and who was the worst? 86 Tell me about a time when you disagreed with your boss 87 If your boss gives you a mountain of tasks at 3:00 and says she needs them by 5:00, but you know you can’t finish them in time, what you do? 88 Tell me about the worst boss you ever had 89 If you know your boss is 100% wrong about something, how would you handle it? 90 Describe a situation where you did not agree with something your boss asked you to and how you resolved the problem 91 Why did you quit your job? 92 What experience you have in this field? 93 What would your previous supervisor say your strongest point is? 94 Tell me about the most boring job you’ve ever had 95 Have you been absent from work more than a few days in any previous position? 96 Do you have the stomach to fire people? Have you had experience firing (many) people? 97 Why have you had so many jobs? 98 What’s the most difficult part of being a [job title]? 99 Can you describe a time when your work was criticized? 100 Can you give me an example of your creativity/managerial/organizational skills? 101 What was the name of your most recent employer? 102 Have you ever opted to resign from a position? Why? 103 Have you ever worked in a position where you felt you were not given enough to do? 104 How you determine your priorities when you have multiple projects? 105 Are you comfortable with strict deadlines? 106 Do you check your messages while on vacation? 107 What is the worst job you can imagine holding? 108 Can you work without supervision? 109 Give me an example of a time when you had to conform to a policy or rule that you did not agree with 110 Describe a situation where your results have been below your superiors’ expectations What happened? What did you do? 111 Describe a major change that occurred in a job that you held How did you adapt to this change? 112 What are the steps you follow to study a problem before making a decision? 113 What was the most important task you ever had? What was your role? 114 How you get a peer or colleague to accept one of your ideas? 115 Have you given any seminars/courses/presentations? 116 How did you get your last job? 117 Why are your dissatisfied with your present job? 118 What would your current employer have to to make you stay there? 119 How did the job influence your career? 120 Are you currently under any employment contract obligation form current or previous employers? 121 Recall a time from your work experience when your manager or supervisor was unavailable and a problem arose What was the nature of the problem? How did you handle that situation? How did that make you feel? 122 Tell me about a time you had to handle multiple responsibilities How did you organize the work you needed to do? 123 What skills have you acquired from your work experience/internships and part-time jobs? 124 When given an important assignment, how you approach it? 125 How does your present position differ from past ones? 126 Have you ever been asked to leave a position? 127 What percentage of your time in spent on each of your job responsibilities? 128 What social obligations go along with your job in this field? 129 In what way did this type of work interest you and how did you get started? 130 Do you participate in many social activities with your co-workers? 131 What kinds of jobs have you held in the past and what did you like most about them? 132 Describe a task you have done recently for which you exerted a high level of effort 133 When were you happy at work? 134 Given a choice in your work, what you like to first? 135 Given a choice, what would you leave till last in your work? 136 On holiday, what you miss most about your work? 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 Why were you transferred/ promoted? Given the achievements in your CV why is you salary so low/high? How does this job fit into your career plan? In your last internship, what tasks did you spend most of your time on and why? Can you tell me about a time when you discovered a more efficient way to a work task? Do you always double-check your work? Tell me about a time when you were given an assignment but you were not clear of how to go about it How did you tackle this situation? Can you tell me about a time when you backed off in a meeting because you felt someone else should speak or have an opportunity? How would you show co-workers the importance of cooperation? Give an example of a time when you assisted a co-worker to enhance their work skills? Tell me about a situation when you were given job instructions and you were unable to comprehend the instructions How did you go about completing the task? How often you discuss and work with colleagues to think up new systems and styles of working? Can you tell me about a time when you did something extra, which was not part of the routine activities assigned to you, but you did it for the benefit of the customer? Describe a time when you took an additional work to help your team meet a crucial work goal? Tell me about a time that you undertook a course of study, on your own initiative, in order to improve your work performance? Tell me about initiatives you have taken to improve procedures at work? Were you successful? Would you anything different now? When you need to create an order of job tasks that need to be completed, how you decide which task has priority? When was the last time you used an inventive method to draw out company resources beyond a level that is usually met? Explain to me how your work experience is relevant to this position? What relevant experience you have? Could you have done better in your last job? III CÂU HỎI VỀ HỌC VẤN VÀ CÁC KIẾN THỨC CHUYÊN MÔN 158 Discuss your educational background 159 What’s the most important thing you learned in school 160 Why did you choose your major? 161 Why did you choose your university and what factors influenced your choice? 162 Why did you choose your degree subject? 163 What computing skills you have? 164 What is suggestion you’ve made at work that was implemented? 165 Tell me about your experiences at school 166 What has been the most rewarding university experience? 167 On a scale of 1-10, how would you rate your vocabulary and grammar skills? 168 How has your education prepared you for your job? 169 What college subjects did you like best? Why? 170 What college subjects did you like least? Why? 171 If you could so, how would you plan your academic study differently? Why? 172 What have you learned from participation in extracurricular activities? 173 Do you have plans for continued study? An advanced degree? 174 What changes would you make in your college or university? Why? 175 Tell me about your education 176 What were your favorite classes/activities at school? 177 In what ways have your college experiences prepared you for a career? 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 Describe your most rewarding college experience Did you enjoy school/college/university? How you think you have changed personally since you started school/college/university? Why you think graduates in [your degree subject] would be good [job role you have applied for]? Do you feel your GPA reflects your academic ability? Knowing what you know now about your college experience, would you make the same decisions? What contributions have you made to a group project? Do you have education or training relevant to this position? What parts of your education you see as relevant to this position? Is grad school important? Are you currently taking or enrolled to take any job related educational courses? If you could change or improve anything about your college, what would it be? How will the academic program and coursework you’ve taken benefit your career? Are you the type of student for whom conducting independent research has been a positive experience? Describe the type of teacher who had the most beneficial influence on you Describe the type of professor that has created the most beneficial learning experience for you Do you think that your grades are indication of your academic achievement? How was your transition from high school to college? Did you face any particular problems? How have you differed from your professors in evaluation you performance? How did you handle the situation? Give two examples of things you’ve done in previous jobs or school that demonstrate your willingness to work hard Describe the last time that you undertook a project that demanded a lot of initiative How has college changed you as a person? Does your work relate to any experiences or studies you had in college? What courses have proved to be the most valuate to you in your work? What courses you wish you had taken that would have better prepared your? If you were a college student again, what would you differently to prepare for this job? How important are grades or GPA for obtaining a job in this field? What is the best educational preparation for this career? How you think [name of your school]’s reputation is viewed when it comes to hiring? If you were entering this career today, would you change your preparation in any way to better facilitate entry? Do you apply the skills and knowledge learned at school in you work? What you like best about your school? Please describe your own roles and functions in school, college, job, clubs, or other groups Do you feel that grades are a good indicator of your ability? What would cause you to miss an assignment or be tardy? Tell me about your undergraduate university experience If you were hiring a graduate for this position, what qualities would you look for? IV CÁC CÂU HỎI VỀ CÁ NHÂN, TỔ CHỨC, CÔNG VIỆC ỨNG TUYỂN 215 What you know about our company? 216 What interests you about this job opening? 217 What salary range are you looking for? Or what you feel this position should pay? 218 What were your expectations for the job and to what extent were you met? 219 What can you for this company? 220 Why should we hire you? 221 What you find are the most difficult decisions to make? 222 What is more important to you: money or work? 223 Where else have you applied? Or who else have you applied to/got interviews with? 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 Are you willing to relocate or travel? Why should you hire you? How you handle pressure? What questions you have for me? Aren’t you overqualified for this position? Would you lie for the company? What can you tell us about our company? What you know about our competitors? How did you hear about this position? Would you work holidays/weekends? How would you deal with an angry or irate customer? How would you fire someone? Why you want this job? What is the most difficult thing about working with you? Are you willing to make sacrifices for this company? Do you know anyone who works with our company? What will you if you don’t get this position? How you take direction? Do you prefer working with others or alone? Can you summarize the contribution you would make to our organization? In what kind of work environment are you most comfortable? Why you want to work for us and not for our competitor? If offered this position, how long would you plan on staying with our company? What would you differently if you were in charge of this company? Walk me through the important points on your resume What criteria you use for evaluating success? Do you consider yourself a leader? What qualities make a good leader? How you stay current or up-to-date in this industry? What qualities you look for in an employer? What is your definition of intelligence? What can you tell me about this company that nobody else can? What challenges are you looking for in a position? Why you think you would well at this job? What you expect to be earning in five years? Describe the relationship that should exist between a supervisor and those reporting to him/her What two or three things are most important to you in your job? Are you willing to spend at least six months as a trainee? In a job, w hat interests you the most/least? How would you describe an average day on this job? How well defined is the job? Is there a written job description? What is important to you in a job? What qualities you find important in a co-worker? How will this job fit in your career plans? Give me an example of a time when you had to think out of the box What factors most influence your willingness to take a risk? In your opinion, what are the advantages and disadvantages of working as a part of a team? Why? On a scale from 1-5 (one being the lowest) how you rate your communication skills? If you found out that one of your co-workers was doing something dishonest, what would you do? What are your plans for self-improvement and personal development? Which of your personal characteristics you feel enhances your effectiveness in communicating with others? If you had an opportunity to develop a basic set of values and beliefs which would serve as a company’s foundation for success, what would those be? In your opinion, what is the difference between a vision and a mission? 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 299 300 301 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 310 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 320 321 322 323 324 325 What are one or two areas in which you think you could improve your performance? How many applications have you made? (if you have applied to lots of places) why haven’t you had many interviews? Describe a situation in which you dealt with confrontation, for example a difficult customer What gets you out of bed in the morning? How much money you need to make? What expectations you have for your future employer? What challenges are you looking for in a position? What is your approach to handling conflict? Solving problems? Why are you looking for a new job? Do you feel you have strong opinions about others? How would you describe yourself to a stranger at a party? Are you hoping for advancement within the company? Do you meet the application requirements? What you to attempt to motivate your co-workers? What you to help those unfamiliar with technology understand it better? How you define teamwork? Have you ever postponed a decision? Why? If you were CEO of this company, what would you change? What are your pet peeves? How would you define good customer service? What quality of yours or personal trait matters the most in your career? Do you need additional training? What are your expectations regarding promotions and salary increases? How can you stay energized at work? Tell me what are the first things you would if you got this position? What training you think you will require doing this job? How you feel about being on call? How you feel about company politics? How much notice you require? How important is money to you? Are there any particular companies that interest you? Define cooperation Define quality Define service Define commitment Define discipline Define dedication Define integrity How you define empowerment? How you define arrogance? Are you arrogant? How you delegate authority? What you expect to learn from this job, what you’re currently getting? Would you say that you can easily deal with high-pressure situations? Do you have a geographic preference? By providing examples, convince me that you can adapt to a wide variety of people, situations and environments What suggestions you have for our organization? Describe a time when you put your needs aside to help a co-worker or classmate understand the task How did you assist him or her? What was the result? What you when you are faced with an obstacle to an important project? Give an example Describe a team experience you found disappointing What could you have done to prevent it? What criteria are you using to choose companies to interview with? 326 327 328 329 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 341 342 343 344 345 346 347 348 349 350 351 352 353 354 355 356 357 358 359 360 361 362 363 364 365 366 367 368 369 370 371 372 373 Which is more important: creativity or efficiency? Why? What in your opinion, are the key ingredients in guiding and maintaining successful business relationships? What you prefer: recruitment or selection? What kind of person are you? What does trust mean to you? Which one is better: mentoring or coaching? What concerns you have about this job? What you see as your primary qualifications for this job? How much job security you have in this position? What is the next step in your career? If your job was suddenly eliminated, what kinds of work you feel prepared to do? What systems are in place to enable employees to give management feedback and suggestions? How would you describe the atmosphere at the company? Is it fairly formal or more casual and informal? How does a person progress in your field? Briefly describe the type of career opportunity you are seeking When can you start to work if hired? What are some of your expectations of your future employer? Please list three areas you feel have opportunities for improvement What significant trends you see in your industry? How would you tackle the first 90 days at this job? Do you set goals for yourself? What specifically you to set examples to your fellow employees? Are you looking for a permanent or temporary position at the company? Will you take a drug/psychological examination as a condition of employment? What would you to deal with office gossip? What gives you the most satisfaction during free/vacation time? What may cause your priorities to change in a retail environment and how would you react? What would you to drive additional sales? What would you hope to gain from working for our company? How you incorporate fun into your day? How ambitious are you? In 200 words or less, please tell us why this role appeals to you? What you when making a mistake? Why are you interested in this vacancy? Please briefly describe what brings you to be seeking a new position at this time? If you come across an unethical behavior what would you do? If boss gives you an unreasonable request, how would you handle it? Please let us know the differences of your previous job description and your company job description How you measure quality? Please describe in 500 words or less your greatest talent as an employee that distinguishes you from most others What days and hours are you available to work? Please be a specific as possible List 4-5 qualities and examples in your previous experience where these qualities allowed you to overcome a problem or succeed at a task How will you manage to come in on time to the office? Can you recall a time when you were less than pleased with your performance? What you think is most important when dealing with your customer? What is the thing you most hate in life? How you spend your day? Give an example of when you worked with little or no supervision 374 375 376 377 378 379 380 381 382 383 384 385 386 387 388 389 390 391 392 393 394 395 396 397 398 399 400 401 402 403 404 405 406 407 408 409 410 411 412 413 414 415 416 417 418 Please give examples of when you have had to communicate information both verbally and in writing in a clear and concise manner? How to overcome less punctual? What you when two employees are fighting? What sort of things you like to delegate? How you see this job developing? You seem not to have much experience in [required skill]? What you think is your market value? What decisions you find easy to make? When you plan to retire? What training have you had for this job? How you get the best out of people? This job has a large component of travel/sales/negotiation/stress How will you cope with that? What are the major influences that encourage you to take the job? Have you been coached in interviewing skills? What you find most attractive about this position? What seems least attractive about it? How long would it take you to make a meaningful contribution to our firm? Your resume suggests that you may be over-qualified or too experienced for this position What’s your opinion? What you think is the most difficult thing about being a manager or executive? How you feel about leaving all your benefits to find a new job? How did you find out about this job? Do you prefer oral or written communications? Rate your vocabulary and grammar skills for me Describe some of your latest written communications and how effective they have been Describe for me two situations in which you were proactive What types of people need to be treated with good manners? How you continue learning on a daily basis? Why is continuous improvement necessary? How you rate yourself in computer skills? Please describe the programs and software that you can use well Can you perform internet research? Please describe to me your steps in doing so How would you handle a client coming into town from a foreign country, say Thailand? What is intelligence? Do you prefer structured or unstructured activities? How you think it rate as an interviewer? How would you react if you knew that everyone in your department was going to let go except for one person? Tell me about a time when you had to give someone difficult feedback and how you managed it Would you be willing to take a salary cut? Do you think this company is ambitious and if so, why? Tell me about a tricky situation for which you found a very simple solution? What steps will you take to clarify unclear information, or instructions with regard to your work? Is detail important to you? Do you think details should be left to your assistant? There are thousands of possible careers Why you want to follow this particular career? Five years ago, how would you have answered this question: “where you see yourself five years from now?” Do you think you have achieved what you wanted to? Describe a time when you took extra effort to make sure the person with whom you were communicating with had really understood your point How did you this? Can you tell me about a situation, which you tried to solve a problem with ideas and methods that had not been tried before? If you had to turn down a request from a valued client, what would you do? 419 420 421 422 423 424 Do you like doing things in a new way? Do you think it is worth it? What are some things that you may change in the near future about your style of working? And why? Do you think that technology can help to achieve better efficiency at work? Give me an example Can you tell me about a situation where you used your imaginative skills to solve a very difficult problem? What in your view makes a person likeable? How will you initiate a new relationship with a potential client? Do you think it is necessary?